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We recently had birds nesting in the awning of our loading bay. I was tempted to just get bird spikes off amazon and have our maintenance team install them, but
by Magi604 3y ago
We recently had birds nesting in the awning of our loading bay. I was tempted to just get bird spikes off amazon and have our maintenance team install them, but my boss wanted to get advice and quotes from our pest control company.
I mentioned my whole bird spike idea and the pest control guy laughed and said they don't even sell those because little tiny birds nest between the spikes and it protects the nest from bigger birds.
We ended up getting netting under the whole awning to stop any entry points for birds to get at the bars. For two facilities it cost nearly $30k.
- CapsAdmin 3y agoI've seen pigeons walking on top and nesting inside of netting a few times. I'm not sure if it's caused by pigeons making a hole somewhere, general wear, or that they forgot cover some area.
- Magi604 3y agoThat actually happened with us. Usually there's a gap at the side or corner where the birds can squeeze through. We just called the company back to get the birds out of there (we have zipper openings to change lights so the birds were lured out from those) and then tighten up the sides and corners. It solved the problem.
- afandian 3y agoWhy couldn’t you leave the birds to nest?
- Magi604 3y agoWe stage pallets of product under the awning for shipping purposes. Our product is food packaging and bird poop on product (even packaged and wrapped) is a big no no.